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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> You may learn pretty quickly how these algorithms work and implemented but it may take years of practice to earn ability to recognize them. This is false. Just as you can learn pretty quickly how the algorithms work, you can also pre
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The reason there's no interest is because the primary concern for investors like YC is generating a high return on investment. No matter what feel-good stuff Sam Altman might say about YC's goals in basic income research or other
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Scanadu to shut down support for its Scout device per FDA regulation(techcrunch.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Here are two great articles on the challenges of biofuels: 1. The Rise And Fall Of The Company That Was Going To Have Us All Using Biofuels : https://www.fastcompany.com/3000040/rise-and-fall-company-wa... 2. A Biofu
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The American Dream, Quantified at Last(nytimes.com)
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Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees(arstechnica.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
> Bill Microsoft, Steve Apple, Mark Facebook, Larry and Sergey Google, Elon Tesla. They all tried to stay in school. They were good students with no intentions of leaving. This is false for Jobs and Musk. It wasn't until 4 years aft
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
From what I've seen, a lot of early-stage employees are aware of the game, or at least that they can only count on the salary they're receiving (and only for now). This is why you often find that the employees at startups are medi
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I think it makes a lot more sense to give lower-level employees yearly performance bonuses than illiquid equity. Lower-level employees generally don't have sufficient information or perspective about the company's performance or l
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Korean conglomerate ( chaebol ) owners utilize interlocking relationships between companies in order to maintain control despite having only a minority ownership[0,1]. This can cause lots of corporate governance issues, such as when family
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Barcelona hits Airbnb with a hefty fine(economist.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
If you haven't read it, the previous article in the WSJ Theranos series, on the original whistleblower, is a riveting read[0]. I can't wait to see how this is portrayed on the big screen[1]. 0: http://www.wsj.com/a
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
And was a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows as late as August[0], although she seems to have been removed from it since[1]. 0: http://web.archive.org/web/20160821214900/https://hms.har
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Boosted (YC S12) says to stop riding e-skateboards after battery malfunctions(theverge.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
I think the point is that even if you're 100x as "lucky" if you work hard, if x << 1, then it's also true that 100x << 1.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
The Chinese knockoffs (and Google, for that matter) have trouble making equivalently good software (iOS). It's a challenge in software development and hardware-software integration, not hardware development.
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
You can just wait until the demand has been proven, and then jump in. That's what's happened to GoPro and to most PC/smartphone OEMs, and it's what happens to pharma companies when their drugs go off patent. I don't
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
That's like saying it costs a billion dollars to develop a drug, so there's a big barrier to entry. Making the first pill (or Magic Leap) might cost $1B, but the second will only cost a couple hundred bucks. That's why there&
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The Hype–and Hope–of Artificial Intelligence(newyorker.com)
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Out of Formation(buzzfeed.com)
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How California Became the Intellectual Capital of Trump’s GOP(the-american-interest.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
That's a nice sentiment in theory, but hiring is difficult for most companies (everyone wants to work for the usual suspects, after all). You often can't afford to remove skilled employees because they're being petty. Plus, t
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Even if the manager's "skills" were good, he wouldn't be respected by the working parents. If he somehow hid his age, virginity, and not having a family (obviously difficult in practice), his reports would probably treat
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Venture Capital: It is a pricing, not a value, game(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Sure, diversification is fundamental to modern portfolio theory, and the long run returns for a diversified fund tend to be positive. And the stock pickers who outperform aren't necessarily anything more than statistical outliers ( htt
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
Groupon, Twitter (Zuck: "they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in"), and Zynga also got lucky quite a bit, and then suddenly they weren't getting lucky very much at all. And actually, no, DHH wrote about Groupon an
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GRPN http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TWTR http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ZNGA Cherry-picking isn't that hard. Plus, when DHH wrote that pos
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by w1ntermute 10y ago
https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
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Code of Silence(theintercept.com)
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Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple also an unlikely suitor(recode.net)
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